The Walk Home is a big book about
why it is important to look after our local environment. The
story and pictureswere created by Year
Four children at Harbinger school on the Isle of Dogs.
The words for the story are a combination of individual stories
written by the children
in the class. The illustrations are collages made
by re-using old materials that are often thrown away such as
scraps of cloth, old magazines,
tin foil, newspaper and wrapping paper. When creating the pictures
for the story the class concentrated on using a variety of colours
and textures so that their collages would be interesting to look
at and feel. Click here to read more.
This book was written to celebrate the forthcoming
centenary of Gorsefield Rural Studies Centre. It is also about
how everyone can do something to look after the beautiful world
that we all live in. A Gorsefield Journey was written and illustrated
in May 2006 by Year Six children of Smithy Street school in Stepney.
Click here to
read more.
